9 Things That Used To Happen On Facebook But (Thankfully) Don't Anymore

4. Getting excited about having a lot of notifications.

We've all had those days when we love the way social media platforms like Facebook allow us to connect with friends and relatives all over the world in ways we never could before.

At the same time, we've all had those days when we thought about deleting our accounts, going off the grid, and never looking back.

If you've had a Facebook since it went public ten years ago, you've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Because social media often evolves with its users' needs, we've come a long way since then. While Facebook may still annoy us from time to time, at least we can be thankful these nine things haven't happened since we stopped using dial up:

1. Getting tagged in one of those "the sassy one, the playful one, the catatonic one" cartoon group pictures. You know the ones.

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"We all have the friends"... who insisted on tagging us in one of these ridiculous group photos. Once a popular trend in the late 2000s/early 2010s, tagmypals.com has since gone out of whatever business they were technically in.

To show how far we've come, let's all agree to just tag each other in the comment section of Instagram memes.

5. Automatically reposting your tweets as status updates.

Back when there were just two kids on the social media block, there was a newfound novelty to synchronizing them. Now, though, most people know every social media platform serves a specific purpose and choose to keep them separate.

And for that, we thank you.

6. Getting catfished.

Granted, this must still happen or MTV never would've created the TV show of the same name or continued it into a fifth season. However, due to the popularity of Catfish: The TV Show, even those who have never seen it have learned its main lesson: how to use Google's reverse image search.

Technology — and common sense — have both come a long way since Catfish premiered in 2010 so, at least nowadays, it happens to far fewer people.